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Precaution

caution or care caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good as his life was saved by precaution

Precautional

Precautionary

Rash act

as to the consequences. Criminal negligence is the failure to exercise duty with reasonable and proper care and precaution guarding against injury to the public generally or to any individual in particular. It is the imperative duty

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peculiar risk doctrine

a general contractor) liable for injury caused by an independent contractor if the employer failed to take reasonable precautions against a risk particular to the employee's work that the employer should have recognized

Negligence

causing damage; even in this last-mentioned case the defendant would still be under a special duty to take precautions, as held in the Dominion case, ubi supra. So also an employer is liable for an accident arising

Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847

Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847 (English) (10 & 11 Vict. c. 34). An Adoptive Act. The provisions of this Act relating inter alia to 'naming streets and numbering houses,' 'improving line of streets,' etc., 'ruinous and...

unavoidable accident

caused by the negligence of any party or that is unforeseeable or not preventable by exercise of reasonable precautions and for which liability based on fault is not imposed compare act of god

Precaution against fire

Precaution against fire, means precautions against the occurrence or outbreak of fire, and the words would not in their literal interpretation, cover pre-cautions

Riot Damages Act, 1886

the amount of compensa-tion, regard is to be had to the conduct of the claimant, whether as respects precautions taken by him, or the part taken by himself in the riot, or the provocation offered by him

Lurking house-trespass

Lurking house-trespass, whoever commits house-trespass having taken precautions to conceal such house-trespass from some person who has a right to exclude or eject the trespasser from

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